Sentences with phrase «white evangelical republicans»

But more white evangelical Republicans think Trump would do a poor / terrible job (18 %) than think the same about Rubio (11 %), Carson (7 %), or Cruz (5 %).

And a January Pew Research Center poll found that 44 percent of white evangelical Republicans view Trump as «not too» or «not at all» religious.»

Not exact matches

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By the 1980s, white evangelicals had coalesced around the Republican Party and its promise to restore the nation's morality.

(CNN)- Over the last few days I have fielded hundreds of angry e-mails from pro-Mitt Romney evangelicals about a recent Belief Blog post in which I took Billy Graham and other white evangelicals to task for turning Jesus into a water boy for the Republican Party.

-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.

There's been much speculation about whether white evangelicals, who have accounted for more than a third of Republican votes in recent elections, will turn out in force for Mitt Romney, a Mormon who for years supported abortion and gay rights.

Black Protestant voters diverge from the much larger group of white evangelicals, who make up one out of five registered voters and one out of three Republicans.

Among Republican voters, white evangelicals were actually among Trump's greatest skeptics.

But left with only Trump or Clinton as options, 93 percent of Republican or Republican - leaning white evangelicals said they will vote for Trump.

With Huckabee on the sidelines, other Republican White House hopefuls will have a better chance of picking up evangelical votes, which accounted for more than half the GOP electorate in Iowa and South Carolina in 2008, according to polling.

Southern white evangelicals, now overwhelmingly Republican, are the vanguard of the culture war, defending their view of a properly ordered American way of life.

The only demographics that broke for Trump more than white evangelicals were Republican men (90 %), Republican women (89 %), and conservatives (81 %).

Initial reports suggest that four out of five white evangelical Christians voted for Trump, continuing their pattern of support for the Republican candidate in US presidential elections since the 1980s.

In recent decades, white evangelicals — and yes, that's a statistically identifiable voting bloc and I'm using it as such in this article — have been among the most consistent supporters of the Republican Party.

Many white evangelicals, who traditionally vote Republican, are asking what to do next.

But just as religiously committed Evangelical and Mainline Protestants were much more likely to vote Republican than their nominally religious brethren, regularly attending white Catholics gave Bush a narrow plurality over Clinton (41 percent to 39 percent), while less - observant Catholics gave Clinton a bigger margin (44 percent to 33 percent).

After the election, white evangelicals gave the conduct of the Republican Party mixed reviews, with 38 percent grading it an A or B; 32 percent grading it a C; and 30 percent grading it a D or F. White evangelicals were even more critical of the Democratic Party, with 63 percent giving it a failing gwhite evangelicals gave the conduct of the Republican Party mixed reviews, with 38 percent grading it an A or B; 32 percent grading it a C; and 30 percent grading it a D or F. White evangelicals were even more critical of the Democratic Party, with 63 percent giving it a failing gWhite evangelicals were even more critical of the Democratic Party, with 63 percent giving it a failing grade.

«For example, the gap among voting blocs that gave a B or better to the Republicans versus the Democrats was greater among white evangelicals than all other religious groups and all voters, as reported in these data,» he wrote.

We know that white evangelical Christians are, on the whole, Republican, and that African - American Christians of all stripes are strongly Democratic.

When a believing friend wrote that the Bible did not apply to the character and conduct of a President, that is when I realized how deeply the White Evangelical Church of the United States had committed itself to its marriage to All Things Republican.

Self - identified white evangelicals, who lean Republican, showed the strongest support among faith groups for the travel ban, with a 76 percent approval rate in a Pew Research Center survey released last week.

According to a 2016 Pew Research Center survey, 63 percent of white evangelicals, 63 percent of Republican - leaning voters, and half of all Americans over 65 believe that Islam encourages violence more than other faiths.

Support for Trump among white evangelicals tends to exacerbate the trends among Americans overall, with regular churchgoers, men, and older demographics more likely to skew Republican.

Since the mid-1980s, white evangelical women have shifted more Republican than white women overall, a move that has solidified as it becomes harder for pro-life women to find a place in the Democratic Party.

«Republicans and white evangelicals overwhelmingly back Romney irrespective of their views of his faith,» the report said, «and Democrats and seculars overwhelmingly oppose him regardless of their impression.»

While the national political debate continues to swirl around the state of the economic recovery, five Republicans with their eyes on the White House spent the evening in a Des Moines suburb pitching themselves to the evangelical Christians who dominate the Hawkeye State's crucial first - in - the - nation caucuses.

The reality is 65 million people voted for Trump... and while a lot of those votes came from people who were legitimately frustrated with both political parties and wanted someone to shake up the system, and a lot of votes cam from traditional doctrinaire Republican voters who held their nose and voted for the guy because they wanted a tax cut, and other voters were pseudo-moralistic Evangelical hypocrites who wanted to reward McConnell for STEALING Merrick Garland's Supreme Court seat, there were a whole lot of Trump voters — including a lot of voters from Pennsylvania's «T» — who voted for Trump because they are racist, white supremicist xenophobes who saw in Trump someone who spoke their language and would «make america great again» (read «make america WHITE again&raqwhite supremicist xenophobes who saw in Trump someone who spoke their language and would «make america great again» (read «make america WHITE again&raqWHITE again»).

Nevertheless, many Americans who self - identify as religious and social conservatives, especially those in the subset of white evangelical Protestants (a powerful voting bloc in Republican politics), continue to cling stubbornly to the orthodoxy of climate denial.